Windows to Russia

Svetochka is off today and tomorrow. She had to work this weekend due to emergencies with her bank servers and that means that I get to have her at home during the week. I am a happy bear today… We plan on going downtown Moscow and once again “The Moscow Film Festival” sneaked up onContinue reading The Moscow Film Festival 2018

I find the best places to walk. I am not as appreciative of life, when humanity is massed to the point of sardines in cans and thus, I walk and find the outside of that can… It reminds me so much of my upbringing in America. A time when people walked, talked and pumped waterContinue reading It is life in a huge city……

I actually am amazed at the fact that we even think China should take all our trash… The war on “foreign waste” started last July when China banned imports of 24 varieties of solid waste. Back then many commentators and indeed the recycling industry were hoping that the execution of the regulation will be delayedContinue reading Here, take our trash, we don’t want it…

Natalia Veselnitskaya a Former Russian Oligarch And Putin Nemesis MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian lawyer who discussed sanctions with Donald Trump Jr. in New York during his father’s 2016 campaign for the U.S. presidency said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller has not contacted her yet. In an interview with The Associated Press, Natalia VeselnitskayaContinue reading Good Question: Russian lawyer questions why Mueller hasn’t contacted her

Today: Svetochka’s servers at work stopped working. Not dead, just full of excess data. She had to go to work, she worked yesterday also and bear is unhappy. So bear will be silent today and grouch his way around… It also is snowing today… It is cold… Now it started to rain… Having very intelligentContinue reading Today is a grumpy day…

You should read this: (Link below (KCNA) is sporadic in working. But I pulled the meeting data from it. So it does work in Russia at least.) I comment at the end of the long meeting… (Another link – uriminzokkiri.com) Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) — The Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee ofContinue reading The Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea took place in Pyongyang on April 20.

Soviet Time Tidbit: Gates to Hell – Door to Hell: The Gates of Hell is a huge gigantic wide hole found in Turkmenistan. It is not a natural occurring hole but helped to development by a 1971 Soviet drilling accident that caused the hole to leak dangerous gases. Scientists figured the best solution was toContinue reading Soviet Time Tidbit: Gates to Hell – Door to Hell…

I found a cool place to walk. Very few people, except to cross it to the other side and it goes for kilometers straight ahead. If I had a bike, it would be perfect for me to ride at. No hills and few people… I also found a McDonald’s (Макдоналдс) and it has a McCafeContinue reading Found another McDonald’s and a wonderful place to walk…

The plans for the Russian Antarctic Expedition and the parameters of its activities for 2018–2022 have been approved. The new plan is similar to the 2013–2017 expedition and aims to expand Russia’s presence in the Antarctic. In 2018–2019, there will be 110 members of the Russian Antarctic Expedition without counting the ship and aircraft crews;Continue reading Russian Antarctic Expedition operations plan for 2018–2022

Now you gone and done it….I have said before, do not get the Russian woman involved. They run the country. When they get grouchy? The men have no choice but to defend them… Things are getting scary… what do you think Trump’s safe word is? #Syria pic.twitter.com/eHcFqqUtbl — IN THE NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) April 17, 2018Continue reading Things are getting scary in Russia…